Re: Nostalgia

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From: jmfbahciv
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 14:42

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Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> On 2018-02-15, Gareth's Downstairs Computer
> <headstone255.but.n...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Gazing at my bookcase and noting a 1971 copy of the
>> PDP8's Small Computer Handbook.
>>
>> That was 47 years ago, and then 47 years before then
>> takes us back to 1924, well before the days of any
>> working programmable machines (pace the Jacquard Loom)
>>
>> Now that the Raspberry Pi 3 gives us a quadcore 64 bit
>> processor with 1GB of RAM for only a few £ / $, I realise
>> that a lot of our nostalgia and folklore of those days is
>> for something very primitive compare to today's offerings
>
> Still, people did some amazing things with those very
> primitive machines.  Put a man on the moon, for instance.
>
We couldn't afford bloat.

/BAH

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